Katarzyna Pieprzak

Poetics of Repair

Contemporary Arts and Afterlives of Colonial-Era Mass Housing in the Maghreb

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Produktbeschreibung

Katarzyna Pieprzak examines how contemporary visual, literary, and performance art of the Maghreb has the potential to change the terms, histories, and imagined futures of mass housing in North Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478028055
• ISBN-10: 147802805X
• Artikelnr.: 70272581

Autorenporträt

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Massachusetts Professor of Francophone Literature, French Language, and Comparative Literature at Williams College. She is the author of Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Postcolonial Morocco.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations and Transliterations  ix
Preface. Unexpected Paths to Mass Housing  xi
Introduction. Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair  1
1. Sonic Repairs to the Grid: Art Engages the Epistemology of Hay
Mohammadi, Casablanca  27
2. Affecting Relation in Climat de France, Algiers: Decolonial Poetics and
Embodied Ethics of Recognition  69
3. Remembering and Repairing Women’s Homes: Nanterre, Bidonville de la
Folie  115
Conclusion. Touching Feed and Moving Hands: Art’s Repair from Affective
Gesture to Capacious Home  165
Acknowledgments  173
Notes  175
Bibliography  195
Index  205